When Tenants Claimed the City by Roberta Gold HARDBACK 9780252038181

When Tenants Claimed the City\nby Roberta Gold\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Roberta Gold\nTitle: When Tenants Claimed the City\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252038181\nISBN-10: 0252038185\nRRP: \u00A347.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York''s tenants had organized to secure renters'' rights. After the war, tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly-dominant ideal of homeownership in racially segregated suburbs. They insisted that renters as well as owners had rights to stable, well-maintained homes, and they proposed that racially diverse urban .